Webinars

In this 2 part series, we'll discuss the fifth pillar of BSA – Customer Due Diligence and building a CDD questionnaire, as well as BSA risk issues with opening certain types of customer accounts, including high-risk customers and establishing and changing risk ratings.

Attending this webinar will enable you to recognize a true TDR so that regulator reporting is accurate and to know how to manage them from a lending and accounting perspective.

Does your IT Strategic Plan work for you, or is it just a document that you review once a year? Traditional FFIEC regulatory guidance calls for an IT Strategic Plan that identifies medium-to-long-term goals and allocations of IT resources over a three-to-five-year timeframe.

Keeping up with all of the rules, regulations, and laws that affect financial institution operations can be daunting for the most seasoned compliance professional; for new compliance officers, it can be overwhelming. This session is designed to provide new bank compliance officers with tools to help make the transition to their new role easier.

The Right of Setoff is a complicated, but very effective, tool for collecting debts owed to a bank. Learn the best practices and dangers that can arise when using the power.

Fair Lending laws and CRA laws, if not implemented correctly, lead to redlining problems and are often times cited together in examination. Now with the passing of the Small Business Data Collection and reporting rules, the combination of these critical regulations will bring to light issues in lending policies and will highlight a lack of lending in certain areas which is a direct link to Redlining. The financial institutions that fail to meet the credit needs of its selected assessment and analysis areas are a target of special interest groups.

A compliance audit/review is a comprehensive evaluation of a financial institution’s adherence to regulatory guidelines. Its purpose is to identify problems and weaknesses BEFORE they are detected by examiners, or even worse, customers’ attorneys. This webinar will provide an overview of the tools and resources available for conducting a compliance review as well as areas to review and questions to ask.

Have you ever avoided a tough conversation because you don’t like conflict? Congratulations, you are among friends. Most people don’t jump out of bed in the morning thinking, “I hope I get into some conflict today!” Yet, many leaders avoid tough conversations for multiple reasons, generally boiling down to fear. Fear of the person’s reaction, hurting feelings, being taken advantage of, or the desire to be liked can get in the way of curious communication.

In this webinar, learn why commercial construction loans require different policies and processes than residential construction loans, and how to understand and mitigate commercial construction loan risk.